Checkpoint Friday Will Target OC Homeless Serial Killer

YORBA LINDA (CBS) — Orange County authorities are continuing to set up checkpoints in the hunt for a serial killer targeting homeless men.

A new checkpoint will be established Friday near the Yorba Linda library where 57year-old Paulus Cornelius Smit was stabbed to death on Dec. 30, officials said.

A task force, made up of Anaheim, Brea and Placentia police departments, the FBI and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, say the suspect targets transiets while they sleep.

It is believed that the suspect is also responsible for the murders of James McGillivary, 53, who was killed on Dec. 21 near a Placentia shopping center and 42-year-old Lloyd Middaugh who was found stabbed to death on Dec. 28 near the Santa Ana River Trail.

Friday’s checkpoint is the second one this week. The first was conducted Tuesday night in Placentia.